Information Age
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Information Age
The industrial economy has given way, partially but not fully, to a postindustrial economy in which information, knowledge, and services are fundamental economic drivers.
Matthew Wizinsky • Design after Capitalism: Transforming Design Today for an Equitable Tomorrow
lacking a technology to advertise them, people could not attend to them, could not include them in their daily business. Such information simply could not exist as part of the content of culture. This idea—that there is a content called “the news of the day”—was entirely created by the telegraph (and since amplified by newer media), which made it p
... See moreNeil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
The revolution in communications technology has made it easier than ever for ordinary people to loudly identify the problems that they see in the world. But this age of bits-enabled protest has coincided with a slowdown in atoms-related progress.
The Atlantic • A Simple Plan to Solve All of America’s Problems
History books are ink on paper. They are linear narratives with beginning and ends. They are stories created from archival documents and from other books. Network culture, not really into that. Network culture differs from literary culture in a great many ways. And step one is that the operating system is an unquestioned given. The first thing you ... See more
